GSHDW / AI-native software company

Tools for humans and agents.

GSHDW builds reliable software for people working at the edge of AI. shad brings agents into the terminal. PDFiTT gives humans and agents a shared document layer.

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Founder-led. Bootstrapped. Building in public.

01 COMPANY / 02 FLAGSHIPS / 03 RESEARCH AGENDA

01 / Flagship systems

Two hard problems. One operating thesis.

01.1Agent infrastructure

shad

The agent belongs in your shell.

shad takes plain-language work into a live terminal, plans the route, operates real commands, and stays open to correction while it runs. You retain the steering wheel.

See how shad works

shad / live shellSTEERABLE

$ shad update my project dependencies safely

01 Reading package constraints and current lockfile

02 Checking release notes for breaking changes

shad I found one major upgrade. Holding it back; applying 7 compatible updates.

› run the full test suite before committing

✓ 84 tests passed · worktree clean

type to steerstop to abortctrl-c for shell

01.2Document infrastructure

PDFiTT

Documents agents can actually use.

PDFiTT moves documents between Markdown and PDF without losing the structure that matters. Humans get a browser workspace; agents get APIs, MCP tools, and a portable skill.

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INPUT

# Research brief

Evidence, structure, and references preserved for the next tool.

CLASSIFY→TRANSFORM

PDFPolished document

MarkdownStructured context

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MCP + APIAgent-ready tools

02 / Applied research

Build the tool. Study the boundary.

Our research agenda follows the friction we meet in the products: reliability under action, meaningful human control, and document fidelity across transformations.

R / 01

Agent reliability

How autonomous tools plan, recover, and make uncertainty visible before it becomes damage.

R / 02

Human–AI steerability

How people interrupt, redirect, and retain control while an agent is already in motion.

R / 03

Document fidelity

How agents preserve structure, meaning, and provenance while information changes form.

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03 / From the lab

A portfolio of focused experiments.

Smaller projects let us test a sharp idea before it becomes a platform. These are active directions, not finished promises.

01In the lab

GSlide

Presentation tooling

Experiments in presentation workflows that remain legible to people and useful to agents.

02In the lab

GClip

Context capture

A focused path for capturing, shaping, and moving working context between tools.

03In the lab

GStart

Project systems

Repeatable foundations for starting AI-native software with fewer hidden decisions.

04In the lab

GSearch

Retrieval experiments

Research-driven tools for finding the right evidence without losing its origin.

05In the lab

GSHDW Installer

Developer experience

A cleaner installation and update path across the GSHDW tool family.

04 / Company

AI-native. Human-accountable.

GSHDW is a founder-led software company using AI deeply across research, design, engineering, and operations. Accountability remains human; the evidence lives in the products.

How GSHDW operates

Structure: Privately held
Stage: Pre-seed
Funding: Bootstrapped
Practice: Applied AI research
Legal: GSHDW Labs LLC formation pending

Start with the work

Put the agent closer to the problem.

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